| Year |
Event |
| 1911 |
Gustav Mahler dies |
| 1911 |
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E - flat, Opus 63 |
| 1911 |
Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde," Munich (posth.) |
| 1911 |
Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier," opera, Dresden |
| 1911 |
Wolf-Ferrari: "I guoielli della Madonna," opera, Berlin |
| 1911 |
Arnold Schonberg: "Manual of Harmony" |
| 1911 |
Irving Berlin: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" |
| 1911 |
Lehar: "Eva," opera, Vienna |
| 1911 |
Ravel: "L'Heure espagnole," opera, Paris |
| 1911 |
Stravinsky: " Petrouchka," ballet, Paris |
| 1911 |
Richard Wagner: "Mein Leben," autobiography (posth.) |
| 1911 |
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze founds his institute for the teaching of eurhythmics at Hellerau, Germany |
| 1912 |
Jules Massenet, French composer, dies |
| 1912 |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, dies |
| 1912 |
Ravel: "Daphnis and Chloe," ballet, Paris |
| 1912 |
Delius: "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" |
| 1912 |
Schonberg: "Pierrot Lunaire," song cycle, Berlin |
| 1912 |
Richard Strauss: "Ariadne auf Naxos," opera, Stuttgart |
| 1912 |
Franz Schreker: "Der ferne Klang," opera, Frankfurt |
| 1912 |
Leopold Stokowski named conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra |
| 1912 |
Rudolf Friml: "The Firefly," operetta, New York |
| 1913 |
De Falla: "Vida Breve," opera, Nice |
| 1913 |
Scriabin: "Prometheus," symphonic poem, Moscow |
| 1913 |
Stravinsky: "Le Sacre du Printemps," ballet, Paris |
| 1913 |
Debussy: "Jeux," ballet, Paris |
| 1913 |
Benjamin Britten, English composer, born |
| 1913 |
Bruno Walter becomes director at the Munich Opera (a position he holds until 1922) |
| 1913 |
Elgar: "Falstaff," symphonic poem, London |
| 1913 |
Jack Judge, an English music hall comedian, writes the song "Tipperary" |
| 1913 |
Victor Herbert: "Sweethearts," operetta, New York |
| 1914 |
Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer and pianist, dies |
| 1914 |
Irving Berlin: "Watch Your Step," New York |
| 1914 |
Rutland Boughton: "The Immortal Hour," opera, Glastonbury |
| 1914 |
Vaughan Williams: "A London Symphony" |
| 1914 |
Paul Graener: "Don Juans letzes Abenteuer," opera, Leipzig |
| 1914 |
Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, dies |
| 1914 |
Richard Strauss: "Josephs Legende," ballet, Paris |
| 1914 |
Stravinsky: "Le Rossignol," opera, Paris |
| 1914 |
Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli makes his debut |
| 1914 |
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) founded |
| 1914 |
Sviatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, born |
| 1915 |
Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer, dies |
| 1915 |
Teodor Leshetitzky, Polish pianist and piano teacher, dies |
| 1915 |
Emile Waldteufel, French waltz and dance composer, dies |
| 1915 |
Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer, dies |
| 1915 |
Humphrey Searle, English composer, born |
| 1915 |
Max Reger: "Mozart Variations" Opus 32 |
| 1915 |
The remains of Rouget de Lisle, the composer of "La Marseillaise," brought to the Invalides, Paris |
| 1915 |
Kalman: "Die Czardasfurstin," operetta, Vienna |
| 1915 |
Max von Schillings: "Mona Lisa," opera, Stuttgart |
| 1915 |
Emil Waldteufel, French waltz composer, dies |
| 1915 |
Classic New Orleans Jazz in bloom |
| 1915 |
Richard Strauss: "Eine Alpensinfonie," Berlin |
| 1915 |
Ivor Novello writes the war song "Keep the Home Fire Burning" |
| 1916 |
Hans Richter, German conductor, dies |
| 1916 |
E.W. Korngold: "Violanta," opera, Munich |
| 1916 |
Ethel Smythe: " The Boatswain's Mate," opera, London |
| 1916 |
Jazz begins to sweep the US |
| 1916 |
Yehudi Menuhin, American born violinist, born |
| 1916 |
D'Albert: "Die toten Augen," opera, Dresden |
| 1916 |
Max Reger dies |
| 1916 |
Felix von Weingartner: "Dame Kobold," opera, Darmstadt |
| 1916 |
Schubert-Berte: " Das Dreimaderlhaus" ("Lilac Time"), operetta, Vienna |
| 1916 |
Leo Fall: "Die Rose von Stambul," operetta, Vienna |
| 1916 |
Granados: " Goyescas," opera, New York |
| 1916 |
De Falla: "Noches en los jardines de Espana," symphonic impressions, Madrid |
| 1916 |
Frederic Norton: "Chu-Chin-Chow," musical, London |
| 1917 |
Hans Pfitzner: "Palestrina," opera, Munich |
| 1917 |
Prokofiev: "Classical Symphony," Opus 25 |
| 1917 |
Ottorino Respighi: "Fontaane de Roma," four symphonic poems |
| 1917 |
Busomi: "Turandot" and "Harlequin"(two one-act operas, Zurich) |
| 1917 |
Chicago becomes the world's jazz center |
| 1917 |
Sigmund Romberg: "May-time," operetta, New York |
| 1917 |
George M. Cohan writes American war song "Over There" |
| 1917 |
Bartok: "The Wooden Prince," ballet, Budapest |
| 1917 |
Original Dixieland Jass Band opens at Reisenweber's Restaurant, New York |
| 1917 |
First jazz recordings made |
| 1917 |
French composers Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Tailleferre form group eventually known as "Les Six" |
| 1918 |
Eugene D'Albert: "Der Steir von Olivera," opera, Leipzig |
| 1918 |
Bela Bartok: "Bluebeard's Castle," opera, Budapest |
| 1918 |
Irving Berlin: "Yip,Yip, Yaphank," New York |
| 1918 |
Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor, born |
| 1918 |
Arrigo Boito, Italian composer and librettist, dies |
| 1918 |
Claude Debussy, French impressionist composer, dies |
| 1918 |
Gottfreid von Einem, Austrian composer, born |
| 1918 |
Rudolf Friml: "Sometime," New York |
| 1918 |
Jerome Kern: "Rock a Bye Baby," New York |
| 1918 |
Hubert Parry, English composer, dies |
| 1918 |
Hans Pfitzner: "Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor," Opus 27 |
| 1918 |
Giacomo Puccini: "Il Trittico" |
| 1918 |
Erik Satie: "Socrate" |
| 1918 |
Franz Schreker: "Die Gezeichneten," opera, Frankfurt |
| 1918 |
Karl Straube, German organist, appointed cantor of St. Thomas School, Leipzig |
| 1918 |
Igor Stravinsky: "Histoire du soldat" ("The Soldier's Story"), Lausanne |
| 1918 |
New York Philharmonic Society bans compositions by living German composers |
| 1918 |
A.S. Taneiev, Russian composer, dies |
| 1918 |
Paris Opera, despite daily bombardments, opens with Gounod's "Faust" |
| 1918 |
Cesar Cui, Russian composer, dies |
| 1918 |
Karl Much, German conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra, arrested as enemy alien |
| 1918 |
Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge gives the first of her music festivals, Pittsfield, Massachusetts (Tanglewood) |
| 1918 |
Liza Lehmann, English singer and songwriter, dies |
| 1919 |
Eugene D'Albert: "Revolutionshockzeit," opera, Leipzig |
| 1919 |
Adolf Busch, German violinist, starts the Busch String Quartet |
| 1919 |
Edward Elgar: Concerto in E minor for cello, London |
| 1919 |
Manuel de Falla: "The Three Cornered Hat," ballet, London |
| 1919 |
Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina, born |
| 1919 |
Jazz arrives in Europe |
| 1919 |
Fritz Kreisler: "Apple Blossoms,"New York" |
| 1919 |
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer, dies |
| 1919 |
Andre Messager: "Monsieur Beaucaire," operetta, Birmingham |
| 1919 |
Adelina Patti, operatic soprano, dies |
| 1919 |
Hugo Riemann, German musicologist, dies |
| 1919 |
Othmar Schoek: "Don Ranudo,"opera, Zurich |
| 1919 |
Richard Strauss: "Die Frau ohne Schatten" ("The woman without a shadow"), Vienna |
| 1919 |
Harry Tierney: "Irene," New York |
| 1919 |
Horatio Parker, Ameican composer, dies |
| 1919 |
Xavier Leroux, French opera composer, dies |
| 1919 |
Edgar Varese conducts the New York Symphony Orchestra's first concert of modern music |
| 1919 |
A.D. Julliard dies, leaving 20 million dollars to endow Julliard School of Music, New York |
| 1919 |
Los Angeles Symphony gives its first concert |
| 1919 |
C.T. Griffes "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan," Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Pierre Monteux |
| 1920 |
Max Bruch, German composer, dies |
| 1920 |
Christmas Radio Concert from Konigswusterhausen, Germany |
| 1920 |
Beniamino Gigli makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York |
| 1920 |
Vincent D'Indy: "The Legend of St. Christoper,"Paris Opera |
| 1920 |
Jerome Kern: "Sally," New York |
| 1920 |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Die tote Stadt" ("The Dead City"), Hamburg |
| 1920 |
Franz Lehar: "Die blaue Mazur" ("The Blue Mazurka"), Vienna |
| 1920 |
MAurice Ravel: "La Valse" |
| 1920 |
Oscar Straus: "Der Letzte Walzer"("The Last Waltz"), Berlin |
| 1920 |
Igor Stravinsky: " Pulcinella" and Le Chant du rossignol," ballets, Paris Opera |
| 1920 |
Paul Whitman tours Europe with his band |
| 1920 |
Reginald De Koven, American composer, dies |
| 1920 |
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer, dies |
| 1920 |
Maud Powell, American violinist, dies |
| 1920 |
Henry Hadley: "Cleopatra's Night, American opera, New York Metropolitan Opera |
| 1920 |
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: "London Symphony," final version |
| 1920 |
Camille Saint-Saens Festival held in Athens |
| 1920 |
Gustav Holst: "The Planets," first complete performance given in London |
Music History Timeline - 1911 to 1920
